Watch-charm



(No Model) 0. H. DAVIS.

WATCH CHARM. No. 327,245. Patented Sept. 29, 1885.

- ATTORNEYS.

Unirien STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CORNELIUS H. DAVIS, OF PHILIPSBUBG, PENNSYLVANIA.

WATCH-CHARM.

EGIIEXC ATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,245, dated September 29, 1885.

Application filed March 0, 1885. (No model.)

all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS H. DAVIS, of lhilipsburg, in the county of Center and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved VVatclrOharm, .of which the following is a full, clear, and exact "description.

My invention consists, principally, of a watch-charm and spinning-top, combined in such manner that the top can be easily attached to and detached from the pendant at pleasure.

The invention finally consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in

' which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the combined charm and top. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same, taken 011 the line 05 x of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view taken on the line y y of Fig. 1. Figs. 4-, and 5 are views of the top detached from the charnrpendant, and Fig. 6 shows the top lying upon its side.

A represents the pendent portion of the charm, which is formed of the bell-shaped portion a, tube b, and ring 0, which is provided with the spring-catch d, that reaches through an opening, 6, in the tube I), to engage with one or the other of the heads 1" or f of the stem g of the top B, for connecting the top with the pendent portion A, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. e

The top 13 is composed of the said doubleheaded stem 9 and the body h, through the center of which the stem y passes. The body It is made circular, and with a central opening or cavity, t, and in the cavity 2' is placed the spring j, that presses against the stem 9, to hold it from sliding too easily through the body of the top. The cavity t is covered by the side plates, It It; and to give the top a finished appearance I place upon the plates k the cone'pieces t Z, through which the stem 9 passes, as shown clearly in Fig. 2. The outer surface of the body h of the top is numbered, as shown at m, and beveled at its upper and lower edges, as shown at a and 0, so that when the top tipsover after being spun it will stand upon its side, as shown in Fig. 6, bringing one or the other of the numbers always to the front or uppermost. The bevels 0 are ararranged opposite the larger numbers, while the bevels n are arranged on the opposite edge of the body opposite to the smaller numbers, so that when the top is spun upon the head f the top will stop with a small number uppermost, while, if the stem be pushed through the body and the top spun upon the head f, it will stop with a large number uppermost, thus furnishing a magic reversible top or toy that can be arranged to bring a large or small number uppermost, as desired, by simply pushing through the stem 9.

By forming the pendant A to receive and hold the top the whole may be worn upon the watch-chain as a charm, making an ornament and toy combined.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a watchcharm consisting of a pendant and a spinningtop removably secured thereto, substantially as set forth.

2. The top B, formed with the headed stem 9, in combination with the pendant A, provided with the spring-latch d, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The body of the top, provided with the spring 9', numbered upon its outer surface and beveled at its edges, in combination with the sliding double-headed stem 9, substantially as and for the purpose described.

CORNELIUS H. DAVIS.

\Vitnesses:

WM. E. IRWIN, A. XV. llIARKS. 

